Holograph fragment of a report on discussions with Williams about his proposal, in part identical with the above

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/535, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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– – – from the East Indies which he affirms that it is but little, that the Dutch have it all & that it is not Tinn but Toothnack, a metal as unfit for making Pewter as lead is, so that the raising the price of Tinn will soon encourage the importation of Lead as of Tinn. But finding that M^r Williams &c – – – We are also humbly of opinion that it may not only tend to alter the course of Trade but may lessen the consumption of Pewter at home. All which &c.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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